The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


esraptsburg, Burnett County, will incor-
porate as Village.
Joseph Bower, d Milwaukee carpenter,
sixty-four years of age, committed suicide
the other day by hanging. Drink and
dependency were the causes.
A resolution 80 stop building the County
Insane Asylum was defeated in the
County Beard at La Crosse recently by a
vote of to IS
The name of the town of Minnewauskee
has been changed to Gladstone.
While the twelve-year-ol son OF Martin
Walker, living short distance from
Durand Pepin County, was pouring kero-
sene Oil on a lighted fire the other day the
can exploded, burning him fatally.
The exposition at Milwaukee will be held
from September to October p.
The body of c. N. Rollins, travelling
agent for Sparta Monroe County, tomb
stone firm. was found atloat a few days
ago in the Mississippi river at a point
about two miles above Lyons. 1t was not
known how he came to his death.
A little child of Fred Scharlaw, of Ar.
cadia, Trempealeau County, was fatally
burned the other day by the ignition of its
clothes from pile of burning brush.
Mrs Clarissa Gordon, of River Falls,
Pierce County, recently received pen
sion allowance of S2,400 for arrears,
aud S12 per month hereafter, for the loss of
her son during the war.
News was received at Milwaukee recent
ly of the death of Sister Camilla at En-
mettsburg, Md. For twenty years she
served as a sister-Servant at St Roses
Orphan Asylum, Milwaukee, and in June
last celebrated her fiftieth year of service
in the Sisterhood.
The city schools at Eau Claire will make
an exhibit before the National Teach
ers' Association, which meets in Chicago
in July.
Angus Strelow and Ferdinand Rusch.
young men, were drowned in the bay at
Milwaukee the other afternoon through
the capsizing of boat. Herman Fischer.
the third occupant of the boat swan
ashore.
Three buildings at Fox Lake were burned
early the other morning. N. w. Tarrant,
aged sixty-five years, keeper of general
store, was missing, and was supposed to
have persisted in the ruins The loss was
$4,000
D. Smith, of Weyerhauser, Chippewa
County, recently received back pension to
the amount of $500.
John T. Bowe, of Towerville while in
state of somnambnlism recently jumped
from the second story of the Fortney
House. at La Crosse, but suffered no in
jury other than bruised feet.
Rudolph Schultz, of GAINESVILLE, an old
man, hanged himself the other afternoon
The act was caused by dependency be-
cause it was found necessary to send him
to the poor-house.
Henry Raymond, of Sheboygan obtained
a verdict of $4,000 in the circuit court at
Sheboygan few days ago against that
city for injuries sustained on one of its
streets.
The National Grand Lodge of the Sons
of Hermann will meet in Milwaukee the
last week in June.
Henry Niedecken, a resident of Milwau
kee since 1S47, died of paralysis few days
ago, aged seventy-seven years.
Burglars entered the commission store of
Steiner & hass, in Milwaukee, early the
other morning, blew open the safe and Sc
cured about S3,0O0
Mrs. Richards residence and contents
at Eau Claire were badly wrecked by fire
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loss, 81, 800; partly insured.
The Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank of Mer-
rill, Lincoln County, to begin business with
capital of 500 600.
W. II. Parkinson, of Mineral Point, Iowa
County while sowing oats recently found
gold ring on the point of one of the seedeT
teeth. The ring was lost about thirty
years ago by young ladyin passing over
the farm.
Out Of the four thousand physicians in
the State only about two hundred belong
to the State Medical Society.
All the buildings and contents on the
farm Of J.. NJ Colt, of Beloit, were burned
the other evening. Loss, 50, 900; insurance,
$500.
A Manitowoc factory manufactures 27J,-
900 pounds of glue annually.
Captain F. w. Spafford died the other
morning at his home in Depare, Brown
County His death was caused by peri
tory tbs. He was sick but few days. He
was well-known and popular steamboat
master and for several years in the en-
ploy of the Goodrich line.
The BURBERRY crop IN Sawyer County
promises to be large this year.
John Flick, an old man, killed himself at
the Northwestern depot at Norwalk, Mon
roe County, the other morning by shoot
ing. He had a suit against the railroad
company which did not result to his bone
fit and he was Respondent over that and
his financial condition generally.
H. P. Leavens &, Co.. manufacturers of
flour bags at Milwaukee failed recently.
The assignee gave bonds in S25, O0O
The Bakers Assembly, knights of La
Dor, of Milwaukee, held a meeting the
other afternoon and resolved to withdraw
from the order and resume their cOnnec-
ton with the International Labor Union.
Brakeman John Mccullough fell be-
tween the sections of a broken Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul train at Sparta the
other evening and was killed.
William and James Murphy, brothers,
aged twelve and fourteen years, were ar
rested at Eau Claire the other day for de-
ra ling trains near Green Crossing by open
ing switches.
game and fl ih protection association
has been organized at Appleton.
The Interstate G.. A. R. reunion at Du-
rand has been postponed to June 90
Old papers unearthed recently in the
Office of the register of deeds at Madison
shaw that Daniel Webster once owned
three thousand acres of land in that
county, embracing part Of the present site
Of the city Of Madison, and that he was
interested in the romantic scheme of
founding on the banks of the Wisconsin
river city which should, in time, be the
metropolis of the country.
A general order is about to be issued by
Department Commander Griffin calling for
contributions from the Wisconsin Grand
Army posts for a fund to establish at
Milwaukee a Wisconsin soldiers home,
under the auspices of the Grand Army. 1t
is designed to establish the home this sum-
mer if possible.
Four young people attending German
picnic went out in row boat the other
afternoon opposite La Crosse. The men,
half drunk, sought to brighten Miss Katie
Litske, the only lady in the boat, by rock
ing. The boat capsized, and Miss Litske
and john Boyer were drowned. The other
two were saved.
A stay of proceedings has been granted
in the Grottkau case at Milwaukee until
the next term of the Supreme Court
Peter Kuntz, aged twelve years, a we'll